CSTU 101 CH. 3 Ancient Greece Exam
Questions and Answers
Popular Greek inventions - Answer-The crane and dice.
Classical Ideal: Humanism - Answer-Confidence in human power and ingenuity.
Classical Ideal: Fatalism - Answer-Humans' pride and ambition might bring self destruction.
Minoan Culture - Answer-Figure of the Bull central in both religious practice and cultural creation.
Development of pottery.
Labyrinth and Minotaur.
Mycenaean Culture - Answer-Warrior Civilization.
Central in Iliad and Odyssey.
Wealthy with palace-cities (network of states)
, Poetry and Value: Epic - Answer-Focused on the demonstration and communal values and memory.
Key Features: Epic - Answer-Epic invocation.
Thematic statement.
Divine Intervention/Negotiation.
Vast scope.
Homer - Answer-Composes the Iliad and the Odyssey.
The Iliad - Answer-Story of Achilles and the Siege of Troy.
Depicts the death of Hector and Greek funerary rites.
The Odyssey - Answer-Journey of the Odysseus.
Poetry and Value: Lyric - Answer-Individual emotions and reflections.
Composed in 1st person.
Accompanied by musical performance.
Consistent metrical development.
Sappho - Answer-From the Island of Lesbos.
Most work in highly fragmentary form.
Subjects often about loss, love, or longing.
Religious Values: Polytheistic - Answer-Localized and Variable.
Questions and Answers
Popular Greek inventions - Answer-The crane and dice.
Classical Ideal: Humanism - Answer-Confidence in human power and ingenuity.
Classical Ideal: Fatalism - Answer-Humans' pride and ambition might bring self destruction.
Minoan Culture - Answer-Figure of the Bull central in both religious practice and cultural creation.
Development of pottery.
Labyrinth and Minotaur.
Mycenaean Culture - Answer-Warrior Civilization.
Central in Iliad and Odyssey.
Wealthy with palace-cities (network of states)
, Poetry and Value: Epic - Answer-Focused on the demonstration and communal values and memory.
Key Features: Epic - Answer-Epic invocation.
Thematic statement.
Divine Intervention/Negotiation.
Vast scope.
Homer - Answer-Composes the Iliad and the Odyssey.
The Iliad - Answer-Story of Achilles and the Siege of Troy.
Depicts the death of Hector and Greek funerary rites.
The Odyssey - Answer-Journey of the Odysseus.
Poetry and Value: Lyric - Answer-Individual emotions and reflections.
Composed in 1st person.
Accompanied by musical performance.
Consistent metrical development.
Sappho - Answer-From the Island of Lesbos.
Most work in highly fragmentary form.
Subjects often about loss, love, or longing.
Religious Values: Polytheistic - Answer-Localized and Variable.
